Not about survival specifically, but I felt like Anna does in the book, that feeling of excitement and gratitude about just being able to marvel at it all.
“But meanwhile Caroline got worse every day. She went home after a while
and there were moments where I thought we could have, like, a regular relationship,
but we couldn’t, really, because she had no filter between her thoughts and her speech, which was sad and unpleasant and frequently hurtful.
But, I mean, you can’t dump a girl with a brain tumor. And her parents liked me, and she has this little brother who is a really cool kid.
I mean, how can you dump her? She’s dying. “It took forever.
It took almost a year, and it was a year of me hanging out with this girl who would, like,
just start laughing out of nowhere and point at my prosthetic and call me Stumpy.”
“No,” I said. “Yeah. I mean, it was the tumor. It ate her brain, you know?
Or it wasn’t the tumor. I have no way of knowing, because they were inseparable, she and the tumor.
But as she got sicker, I mean, she’d just repeat the same stories and laugh at her own comments
even if she’d already said the same thing a hundred times that day.
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